NYSE:BKU - BankUnited Stock Price, News & Analysis

BankUnited trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "BKU."

BankUnited announced a -- dividend on Friday, September 13th. Investors of record on Tuesday, October 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.21 per share on Thursday, October 31st. This represents a yield of 2.5%. The ex-dividend date is Friday, October 11th. View BankUnited's Dividend History.

BankUnited declared that its Board of Directors has initiated a stock repurchase program on Wednesday, January 24th 2018, which allows the company to repurchase $150,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

BankUnited (NYSE:BKU) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, July, 24th. The financial services provider reported $0.81 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.68 by $0.13. The financial services provider had revenue of $226.22 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $224.42 million. BankUnited had a net margin of 18.74% and a return on equity of 10.21%. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $0.82 earnings per share. View BankUnited's Earnings History.

BankUnited is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, October 23rd 2019. View Earnings Estimates for BankUnited.

8 brokerages have issued twelve-month price objectives for BankUnited's shares. Their predictions range from $34.00 to $40.00. On average, they expect BankUnited's share price to reach $37.5714 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 11.4% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for BankUnited.

8 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for BankUnited in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 5 hold ratings and 2 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for BankUnited.

News coverage about BKU stock has trended negative recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. InfoTrie identifies negative and positive press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. BankUnited earned a daily sentiment score of -2.9 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news coverage about the financial services provider a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for BankUnited.

BankUnited saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totalling 2,072,400 shares, a decrease of 6.0% from the July 31st total of 2,203,800 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 689,600 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 2.2% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View BankUnited's Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to BankUnited include E*TRADE Financial (ETFC), People's United Financial (PBCT), TFS Financial (TFSL), Umpqua (UMPQ), LegacyTexas Financial Group (LTXB), Flagstar Bancorp (FBC), Capitol Federal Financial (CFFN), Columbia Financial (CLBK), Provident Financial Services (PFS), Axos Financial (AX), Meta Financial Group (CASH), OceanFirst Financial (OCFC), Brookline Bancorp (BRKL), Kearny Financial (KRNY) and Northfield Bancorp (NFBK).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other BankUnited investors own include Bank of America (BAC), Citigroup (C), Intel (INTC), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD), SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY), Zions Bancorporation NA (ZION), Boeing (BA), ConocoPhillips (COP) and General Dynamics (GD).

BankUnited's stock is owned by many different of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (9.68%), Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (7.39%), Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc. (5.53%), BlackRock Inc. (4.70%), Jennison Associates LLC (3.05%) and Jennison Associates LLC (2.95%). Company insiders that own BankUnited stock include Douglas J Pauls, Eugene F Demark, Jay D Richards, Jeffrey Starr, John N Digiacomo, Mark Bagnoli, Rajinder P Singh, Thomas M Cornish and William S Rubenstein. View Institutional Ownership Trends for BankUnited.

BKU stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Diamond Hill Capital Management Inc., Seizert Capital Partners LLC, Balyasny Asset Management LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Jennison Associates LLC, Renaissance Technologies LLC and APG Asset Management N.V.. Company insiders that have sold BankUnited company stock in the last year include Douglas J Pauls, Jay D Richards and Mark Bagnoli. View Insider Buying and Selling for BankUnited.

BKU stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Cramer Rosenthal Mcglynn LLC, Point72 Asset Management L.P., Invesco Ltd., D. E. Shaw & Co. Inc., Great Lakes Advisors LLC, AQR Capital Management LLC and Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC. Company insiders that have bought BankUnited stock in the last two years include John N Digiacomo and William S Rubenstein. View Insider Buying and Selling for BankUnited.

Shares of BKU can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of BKU stock can currently be purchased for approximately $33.72.

BankUnited has a market capitalization of $3.32 billion and generates $1.58 billion in revenue each year. The financial services provider earns $324.87 million in net income (profit) each year or $2.36 on an earnings per share basis. BankUnited employs 1,790 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About BankUnited.

The official website for BankUnited is http://www.bankunited.com/.

BankUnited's mailing address is 14817 OAK LANE, MIAMI LAKES FL, 33016. The financial services provider can be reached via phone at 305-569-2000 or via email at [email protected]